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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood watch at Sep 8, 2018, 4:41 AM CDT for 11 counties in Texas. It took effect at Sep 8, 2018, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 66 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 8, 2018, 4:41 AM CDT (09:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 8, 2018, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2018, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Aransas County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Duval County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, La Salle County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Webb County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 324 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1146 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Sep 8, 1:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 1:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 9:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | La Salle | 36 min |
| Sep 7, 9:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | La Salle | 25 min |
| Sep 8, 8:03 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Webb | 3 days |
| Sep 8, 12:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Bee | 67 min |
| Sep 8, 5:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Live Oak | 51 min |
| Sep 8, 6:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Live Oak | 29 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.